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From: Bruce Maccabee <brumac@compuserve.com>
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 11:43:52 -0400
Fwd Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 13:26:16 -0400
Subject: Re: Mach 50 Thunderdart


>Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 23:13:59 -0700
>From: Baron Northrop <baron@anim.dreamworks.com>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Mach 50 Thunderdart


In all this discussion about mach 50, 17-24000 mph and flying
"intra-atmospheric", i.e., well below 50,000 ft.... no one seems
tpo have made the connection between these high speeds and
METEORS!.

Everyone here knows what happens when meteors hit our
atmosphere. The deeper they penetrate the hotter they get.

The shuttle does it, you say, so why not everyone?

Well, the shuttle is goig about 17,000 mph at altitudes above 100
miles. Then it slows, partly by allowing its surface to burn off
and thereby remove kinetic energy against the "friction" of the
air (heated to glowing plasma temperature). By the time the
shuttle is below 10 miles altitude it is no longer going at
17,000 mph.... and you can guess why (would be one trip per
shuttle/crew).

For an a/c to approach Mach 50 in the atmosphere would be

        (a) dangerous

        (b) require special preparations for handling the very
            high temperatures

        (c) would not be able to communicate with the outside
            by radio (plasma blocks communications)

        (d) would glow..... _and_ would take tremendous
            energy/power to maintain such a speed in dense
            atmosphere.

Time to go back to the drawing board and come up with another
suggestion.